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Publication: Accounting Today
Publication Date: 07-NOV-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Great ideas and entrepreneurial skills get a business started. Good financial management keeps the business going. All too often, businesses don't survive because they are not up to the challenge of effective financial analysis and decision-making. That's where outsourced accounting comes in....

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Business executives are learning that outsourcing the accounting function is a sound business strategy. Successful outsourcing becomes a way to meet a diverse set of tactical and strategic objectives aimed at improving productivity and quality while saving money. Effective outsourcing allows a firm to focus on their core business-doing what they do best.

Building a large, back office accounting function-complete with all the technological advances-is expensive and time consuming. It uses time and other resources that could be used for strategic advancement-such as evaluating the business and assessing where the future will lead. Moreover, outsourcing saves money. A 2004 study by Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company, found that outsourcing produced cost savings that did not decline over time.

Advancing Technology

Technology, as it often does, advances more quickly than many industries, including accounting services. Accounting firms have traditionally provided after the fact write-up and tax services, shying away from becoming daily "bookkeepers."...

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